A Call to Action to Enhance Filovirus Disease Outbreak Preparedness and Response

作者：Roddy Paul

来源：Viruses-Basel, 2014, 6(10): 3699-3718.

DOI：10.3390/v6103699

• Ebola
• ebolavirus
• Marburg virus
• marburgvirus
• Filoviridae
• filovirus
• outbreak
• preparedness
• response
• data collection
• treatment
• guidelines
• surveillance

The frequency and magnitude of recognized and declared filovirus-disease outbreaks have increased in recent years, while pathogenic filoviruses are potentially ubiquitous throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, the efficiency and effectiveness of filovirus-disease outbreak preparedness and response efforts are currently limited by inherent challenges and persistent shortcomings. This paper delineates some of these challenges and shortcomings and provides a proposal for enhancing future filovirus-disease outbreak preparedness and response. The proposal serves as a call for prompt action by the organizations that comprise filovirus-disease outbreak response teams, namely, Ministries of Health of outbreak-prone countries, the World Health Organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Atlanta, and others.

• 出版日期2014-10